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Motor Vehicle Repair - Level 1
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Other start dates:
2nd September 2024
- Length 1 Year
- Study Full-Time
- Location Construction and Automotive Green Technology Centre
More about the course
If you have a passion for motor vehicles and motorsport and spend many hours under a bonnet, then a course in the motor industry is for you! Studying in one of the state-of-the-art and fully equipped workshops, you'll develop a thorough understanding of motor vehicle technology and electronics through practical, hands-on tasks, tuition and working on vehicle repair, servicing, mechanics, and electrical elements.
This course starts the building blocks towards a career in the motor trade. In our workshops, you will learn to remove and refit various components and use tools correctly and safely. In our classrooms, you will learn how the various components work. You will also study the motor trade and how it all works together. We will also look at existing and emerging technologies and how they will affect the future car.
Entry requirements:
There are no formal requirements for entry onto this course.
What will I achieve?
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive a Level 1 Motor Vehicle Transport Maintenance Diploma.
What will I learn?
- Health and Safety
- The Retail Motor Industry
- Chassis technology including suspension and brakes
- Engine technology
- Alternative fuels and electrification
How is the course taught?
- Presentations
- Task-based exercises
- Practical demonstrations
- 1:1 support
- Tutorials and lectures
How am I assessed?
- Practical assignments
- Coursework
- Presentations
- Classwork
Work experience opportunities:
During the year you will have the opportunity to go to different garages and workshops to have an insight into the daily running of a workshops.
English and Maths:
English will be embedded so you can understand the terminology required for this course and maths will be embedded so you can have a better understanding of items such as sizes of sockets and spanners required complete tasks on the vehicle.
Where can I progress?
Upon completion of this course, you can go on to study Level 2 Motor Vehicle Repair Diploma.
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Meet our tutors and students
Ryan Pitkin
Tutor - Motor VehicleI have over ten years of experience teaching and delivering Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair courses. I hold a Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training and a TAQA Assessor qualification. I completed my Level 3 Motorsport Maintenance and Repair course whilst working for a private vehicle sales company preparing, repairing and servicing vehicles for the sales team. I then progressed by serving as a Vehicle mechanic for the British Military during the early stages of my teaching career. I have experience delivering Motor Vehicle Level 1, 2 and 3 courses for the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) and The City and Guilds. I enjoy seeing learners progress and develop skills to enter the ever-adapting Automotive industry as a mechanic.
Adam Griffin
Green Technology Centre ManagerAs a dedicated Site Manager, I oversee the centre's daily operations and support learners in their journey toward achieving their qualifications. My responsibilities include managing four departments: Motor Vehicle, Vehicle Respraying, Bricklaying, and Property Maintenance Operations, offering qualifications ranging from Level 1 to Level 3, as well as apprenticeship programs in these areas. With a background as a fully qualified motor mechanic and vehicle respraying tutor for eight years, I bring hands-on expertise to my role in management.
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What can I do with a qualification in Motor Vehicle?
Daily tasks:
- Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
- Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
- Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
- Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
- Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
- Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
- Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
- Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.
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Daily tasks:
- Positions, secures and repairs external fittings including windows, doors, door handles, catches and roof attachments.
- Installs and repairs interior fittings including seats, seatbelts and fascia in cars, sinks and special features in caravans and mobile shops.
- Hammers out dents in bodywork, fills in small depressions or corroded areas in solder, plastic or other filler compound and replaces body panels using hand and power tools.
- Repairs damage to chassis and engine mountings using hydraulic rams, jacks and jigs.
- Selects, cuts, shapes and assembles materials to form parts of vehicle underframe, framework and body.
- Diagnoses job requirements or ascertains work specifications from drawings or instructions.
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What can I do with a qualification in Motor Vehicle?
Vehicle Technicians, Mechanics and Electricians
Daily tasks:
- Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
- Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
- Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
- Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
- Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
- Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
- Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
- Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.
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Vehicle Body Builders and Repairers
Daily tasks:
- Positions, secures and repairs external fittings including windows, doors, door handles, catches and roof attachments.
- Installs and repairs interior fittings including seats, seatbelts and fascia in cars, sinks and special features in caravans and mobile shops.
- Hammers out dents in bodywork, fills in small depressions or corroded areas in solder, plastic or other filler compound and replaces body panels using hand and power tools.
- Repairs damage to chassis and engine mountings using hydraulic rams, jacks and jigs.
- Selects, cuts, shapes and assembles materials to form parts of vehicle underframe, framework and body.
- Diagnoses job requirements or ascertains work specifications from drawings or instructions.
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